Seances, skis and secrets: an extraordinary WWI escape
Margalit Fox shares the story of two British prisoners of war who used a ouija board to launch an escape bid during the First World War.
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Show Notes
Interned in a remote, forbidding prisoner of war camp at the height of the First World War, two British officers turned to an unlikely tool in their bid to escape – a ouija board. Margalit Fox, author of The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History, tells their story.
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